5 ways to help you stop snoring during pregnancy This is a dilemma when it happens when you are pregnant and especially whenyou disturb your partner. Many a time I have given a gentle nudge to my husband, thinking I am encouraging him to sleep on his side. Then the frustration,

“Oh-oh-oh, so you caught da calypso fevah?!”, closely followed by “Excellent! You swallowed the breadfruit…”. There is a saying in Barbados when a woman falls pregnant – they say she has “swallowed the breadfruit”! As you can probably envisage, a breadfruit is a large, round fruit that looks something like a melon.

Seven months previously, our niece and her husband had moved to Barbados to live. We were so happy when the e-mail came from Emma to say she was pregnant and delighted that Em said that ‘our names were on one of the bedrooms door’.